Following up on a recent blog article that discussed how to use R to explore your researcher degrees of freedom, this post introduces a specification curve plot as suggested in Simonsohn, Simmons and Nelson. With this plot, you can eyeball how various researcher degrees of freedom affect your main outcome ...

A simple 2×2 Le Monde mathematical puzzle: Arielle and Brandwein play a game out of two distinct even integers between 1500 and 2500,  and y. Providing one another with either the pair (x/2,y+x/2) or the pair (x+y/2,y/2) until they run out of even possibilities or exceed 6 rounds. When x=2304, ...

CategoriesBasic Statistics Tags Data Management Data Visualisation Exploratory Analysis Import Data R Programming In this post series, we are going to introduce the exploratory analysis of a dataset as available at ref. [1] reporting earthquakes and similar events occurring within a specific time window. We will run a basic exploratory analysis, ...

I’ve mentioned {htmlunit} in passing before, but did not put any code in the blog post. Since I just updated {htmlunitjars} to the latest and greatest version, now might be a good time to do a quick demo of it. The {htmlunit}/{htmunitjars} packages make the functionality of the ...

Excel dashboards are great… what? ???? For all the complaints that people have for Excel, it still has many clear, indisputable advantages. For one, it is extremely accessible - almost everyone has Excel installed on their computer. It’s familiar...

We went to the Frankfurt Data Science Meetup where our Head of Data Science gave a talk about explainable AI. If you missed it, here are the main takeaways! Der Beitrag Frankfurt Data Science Meetup: Opening the Black Box erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

The tools package that comes with base R makes checking reverse dependencies super easy. Build your package tarball (the pkg_x.y.z.tar.gz file). R CMD build /your/package/location It is a good idea to make sure that the tarball is in a dedicated … Continue reading →

Identifying regional differences of Perinatal Mental Health indicators in the UK with R The fingertipsR package provides an easy interface to access the fingertips API. This repository contains a large variety of public health indicators managed by Public Health England. I will be focusing on the data related to Perinatal ...

On the previous post we showed why modules are usefull to build Shiny applications. We also saw a first minimal “Hello-World” example. It can get difficult to share reactive from/to modules. On this post we will see the 3 most common use cases of data workflow: Module → Application Application → Module ...

By my count, two hundred and thirty-three packages stuck to CRAN last month. I have tried to capture something of the diversity of the offerings by selecting packages in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Shiny, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. The Shiny category contains packages ...